India's medical community demands justice for rape, murder of trainee doctor

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Doctors across India demonstrated on Monday (August 12) to demand justice and a safer workplace following the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata.  Police had found the victim's body in a seminar hall of the R.G. Kar Medical College on Friday (August 9) morning after she was sexually assaulted and murdered the night before.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Doctors across India protested on Monday for justice and workplace safety after a trainee

00:09doctor was raped and murdered in Kolkata.

00:13Police found the victim's body in R. G. Kaur Medical College Seminar Hall on Friday morning

00:18after she was sexually assaulted and murdered.

00:21Doctors, nurses and medics protested in Kolkata, Lucknow, Chandigarh and New Delhi, marching

00:27and staging sit-ins outside hospitals to voice their anger.

00:57Many protesters demanded Central Bureau of Investigation involvement in the case.

01:07West Bengal State Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Monday that the R. G. Kaur Medical

01:13College principal resigned.

01:15She gave police until August 18 to arrest the suspect or the case will go to the Central

01:20Bureau of Investigation.

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